BioShock Infinite Complete Edition

The story of B:I is convoluted and pretentious, with a lot of unnecessary side plots and padding. This makes the game feel too long. Every time you think you are near the end of the game, it throws you another bone to chase. The racism macguffin feels too safe and gets ditched entirely halfway, making it seem pointless. They give you the illusion of choice, by forcing you to choose between things, but in reality it doesn't change anything to the storyline. You just get a different voice line. The game also is way more linear than the previous two games and sometimes feels like your in a shooting gallery. Your sidekick Elizabeth, a real Mary Sue, is invincible and is just there to provide you with cash, salts and ammo, or open locked doors. 'Need money?' and 'Here Booker, catch!' are some of her most used phrases. On the other hand the shooting is great and some of the weapons are great fun, like the hailstorm and volley gun. The enemies are kinda dumb though and mostly just run at you in a straight line. The new Big Daddy, the Handyman, is very annoying to fight, because they can jump on you from 500 meters away. Murder of Crows (to distract them) and a lot of bullets take care of them in a flash. Songbird is also very underused, which is disappointing as it showed a lot of promise. The game now has vigors which act the same as plasmids. Some are directly taken from the previous games, but there are new and fun ones, like Bucking Bronco. The graphics are great and colorful, and the voice work is stellar throughout. Infinite - like Bioshock 1 and 2 - also has an amazing soundtrack. All in all, B:I is a disappointing game, despite having the best combat of the three. The game feels too long and the story is pretentious drivel. Should you play it? I'd say yes, but only buy it when it's on sale.

Beautiful opening scenes, but the storyline seems vaguely familiar (rehash of the earlier two games), and there seems to be a total lack of any puzzle solving. Just running and shooting. The scene art is great again, but as a whole the game just seems a little empty/flat.

good one! good expirionce of this game'

I love this series, but every copy I’ve acquired from GOG consistently freezes and becomes unplayable after hours of grinding. This is incredibly frustrating and needs to be addressed.

BioShock Infinte is my personal favourite in the BioShock series. I enjoy the story and world building in this game immensly. Columbia as a city is hauntingly beautiful, but creepy and dark at the same time. The narrative is complex and unites aspects of pseudo-science with multiple parallel universes. Additionally I am a huge fan of the gameplay, weapons and shooting are much more refined compared to the previos games and combining them with different vigors (this game's version of Plasmids) feels very good and offers a few distinct ways of dealing with encounters. It should be pointed out though, that the game is mostly linear. In rare cases you can choose a few different ways that lead to the same place ultimately and the exploration in the levels in ptentially even more limited than in BioShock 1 and 2. Graphically the game does not hold up quite as well, in terms of the detail of smaller 3D objects around the levels, but the lighting is still phenomenal today. Additionally I greatly enjoyed the Burial at Sea Episodes and its ties to the first BioShock game. Btw: In case you get microstuttering, try disabling the GOG ingame overlay, that fixed it for me and I could still unlock achievements and everything.